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Emtenan is a PhD researcher in Arabic linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. Her work examines grammaticalization in modern Arabic dialects, with broader research interests in historical linguistics, language variation, and language change.

Ziao is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her research examines the ongoing restructuring of Chinese Local Government Financing Vehicles, with a broader focus on Chinese state capitalism, local governance, public finance, and political economy.

Nour Alsabagh is a PhD candidate in History, specialising in the environmental and technological histories of the modern Middle East. Her research explores colonial irrigation and technopolitics in late Ottoman and Mandate-era Iraq, with a focus on labour, ecology, and imperial knowledge systems.

Shatha Alowda is a PhD researcher at the SOAS University of London whose research cuts across social movements and solidarity studies, decolonial theory, and the sociology of everyday encounters, with a particular focus on the everyday interactions through which solidarity is enacted, negotiated, and contested.

Chuchu Fu is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Media Studies at SOAS. Her current research project on the urban and digital influence of ‘Global China’ in Düsseldorf Germany is funded by European Research Council Starting Grant, CHINA.EU.

Yang Jiang is a doctoral researcher in the School of History, Religions and Philosophies, focusing on Islamic mysticism, esotericism, philosophy, and Iraqi modern and contemporary art

Froilan Malit Jr. is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London, where his research examines multilateral migration diplomacy in Asia-Gulf South-South migration corridors. His scholarly interests span international relations, comparative politics, comparative regional studies, and regional migration governance in the Global South.

Wealth Dickson Ominabo is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. His research examines farmer-herder conflict in Nigeria through the lens of political ecology. His work investigates how climate change, transhumance and governance shape security in Nigeria. His interests include sovereignty, democratic governance and the climate-security nexus across West Africa.

Yidan is an ERC-funded PhD student in Media Studies, School of Anthropology, Media, and Gender. Her research investigates how "Global China" (re)configures Parisian urbanism through fashion.